I'm not a shotgun guy, but that's news to me. I've never heard anyone say the home defense shotgun is dead. It's popularity may have waned compared to rifles/carbines, but considering new self-defense oriented shotguns have been introduced in the last few years, like LTT's Beretta semi-auto shotgun or Stoeger's "tactical" SxS, not to mention the rise of Shockwave and Tac-14 guns, I would never have considered the shotgun dead.